Video: Buxton widening nears finish; Nags Head preps for bids

The Buxton beach nourishment project is now over 88 percent complete, with a projected completion date of sometime in March. The work was originally planned to be finished in December, but was delayed by weather and mechanical issues.

Also in the latest video from Dare County’s MoreBeachToLove.com, Nags Head is almost ready to request bids for a 10-mile renourishment project that could take place as early as this summer.

Great idea let’s keeping pumping sand on the beaches in the middle of the summer! This is the greatest boondoggle since the light rail train in VB! The pipes are opened now and sand will be continue to be dumped at the expense of the tax payers and enjoyment of the visitors to OBX. Nothing like renting an oceanfront home only to be blinded by the lights from night work and sickened by the smell of diesel exhaust.

The beach is badly depleted and it has to be done. The residents deserve solid beaches and the tourists do bring in money on which many of the locals depend. Environmentally speaking refurbishing the OBX beaches is only putting a bandage on a permanent wound, but it’s worth keeping up for as long as we can before just giving up on the local people and economy.

They should find the largest grain sand, shells, and gravel not dust to do the beaches. Why spend big bucks to do a half arsed job? For the stuff to stay on the beach it should be heavier. Otherwise it just washes away.

An African serval cat had been missing from a Martins Point home for nearly a month. Wende Pritchard of Kitty Hawk broadcast live video of the cat, named Rocky, roaming her backyard and he was eventually caught Tuesday.

The live oak along U.S. 64 is part of a series trees planted in the 1980s to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Roanoke Island Colony in 1587. Another tree had to be removed after it was damaged by ice and snow on Jan. 4.